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Quotes about Discontent

All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
- Ecclesiastes 1:8
Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.
- Ezekiel 16:28
Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.
- Jonah 4:1
But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
- Luke 15:29
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
- Luke 19:14
There's something very wrong with this world, and it isn't just the wars going on in Asia or the Middle East.
- Paulo Coelho
But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.
- DH Lawrence
In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.
- Samuel Johnson
Not only were the couples unhappy from their respective fights, they are now even more unhappy as a result of comparing themselves with the other couple!
- Dennis Prager
Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad.
- Benny Hinn
The piercing angst of disappointment in everything on this side of eternity creates a discontent with this world and pushes us to long for God Himself—and for the place where we will finally walk in the garden with Him again.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Envy first brings depression: "My life isn't as good as yours." Then comes offense: "Why should you have what I don't have?" Which degrades into hatred.
- John Eldredge